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Aislyn vs Aissatou

American parents have registered 1,956 Aislyns since 1880, against 951 Aissatous. Aislyn is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aislyn against Aissatou, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aislyn Aissatou

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 39 years in which either name was published, Aislyn for 36 years and Aissatou for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Aislyn Aissatou
Total US births 1,956951
Most in one year 11153
Babies in 2025 7742
Estimated living today 1,900940
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20152023
Best rank 1,850th girls3,091st girls
Rank in 2025 2,354th3,577th
First recorded 19791992
Girls / boys 1,956 / 0951 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aislyn Aissatou
England and Wales 387

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aislyn and Aissatou.